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Obi-Wan teaching Waxer & Boil how to knit

They made little knitted sweaters for Numa, and the tookas!

Bonus:

Cody got one as well, but from his General

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Every year I tell myself I will get things done early and won't be up late.

And once again it is 11pm on Christmas Eve. My planning failed.

Oh well. Christmas is ready for whatever way too early time the kids wake me up.

Merry Christmas.

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Source: beth_thefirstyear on Instagram

I have four muffin tips for making bakery style muffins at home.

Tip number one:

Rest your batter for 15 minutes in your mixing bowl after you make it. This is gonna allow the starch molecules to swell and absorb, creating the thicker batter and the thicker batter is known for doming!

Tip number two:

Fill your muffin holes with at least six to eight tablespoons of batter. That’s like a heaping half cup okay. You want them super full so they’re gonna create that dome.

Tip number three:

Kinda goes along with tip number two. You’re only gonna fill every other hole in your muffin pan. And why we do that - that’s so the muffins that are baking can spread and dome without running into their neighbors. Because when they run into their neighbors they get like square edges but we want perfect dome circles.

Tip number four:

You’re to bake your muffins at a high temperature initially. That’s gonna be 425*F for the first seven minutes. And then keep them in the oven and lower the temperature to 350*F for the remaining bake time. Starting the muffins off at a high temperature initially allows the muffins to rise rapidly and it sets the outer surface of the muffin, producing a dome shape.

There you have it. My four muffin tips for creating bakery style muffins.

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We have exactly one Christmas tradition in my house, and it feels very important to share it. I've been a cat person basically forever and for most of my adult life, my house has had more cats than people in it. They've all liked sleeping under the Christmas tree and all that, but other than that, they always just sort of ignored it.

But in 2018, we got Natasha.

There are about a dozen pictures like that, but I always adopt adult cats, so we figured this just came with having a kitten in the house. She was just this tiny little fluff who still fit in my cupped hands despite being about six months old, so we put away the ornaments, shrugged it off, and took advantage of the opportunity to have a really cute Christmas card the next year.

Then, 2019 came around.

Natasha escalated to sleeping in the tree in between trying to eat all the branches, and honestly, it was too funny to make more than a cursory effort to stop her. My partner and I assumed that since she was still pretty tiny, she had more growing to do and would surely get to a point where her own body weight would keep her from doing this. In the meantime, we left the tree without ornaments that year and just called it good.

But then 2020 came around, forcing us to acknowledge that:

Natasha was not going to get too big to do this. At this point it had become clear that she wasn't developing slowly. She was just a really tiny cat. She's less than half the size of any other cat I've ever had.

Natasha was also not going to chill out enough to stop doing this.

But hey. Who needs ornaments with a face like that poking out of the branches at you all the time?

Sure enough, 2021 Natasha also had zero chill about the tree, but at this point it would have been weirder if she did leave it alone.

I thought I had seen everything, but this year I'd been kind of down and my partner decided to surprise me by setting up the tree and stuff while I was at work. It was an incredibly sweet gesture considering they don't actually even like Christmas decorations. It also meant I got to come home to this.

I kept expecting her to fall out, but she just chilled there, surveying the room until she got bored. And yes, that is absolutely a big, fancy cat tree she's ignoring in favor of scaling the Christmas tree.

Two days before Christmas, she has finally gotten bored enough that I'm making my first attempt in ages to actually put up ornaments. At this point, I'm not sure if I'll be more disappointed if they have to come down or if they don't.

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codywan irasutoyas

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2024 Holiday Snippets 6/?

Sorry for the lateness. I was running errands and then baking and it's just been a long day and my knees and back hurt and I feel old....... wah......

This was originally gonna be an entry into first kiss bingo but I changed my mind lol

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Cody was up to his elbows in flour, kneading bread, when the back door to the bakery opened. He spared a glance toward the door only to smile as he saw Obi-Wan come in, hauling crates of eggs with him. Rex and Ahsoka were in the back kitchen making muffins and scones for the morning rush and were lost to anything except the grind and their podcast show.

“That the whole order?” he asked. He thought he had ordered more eggs than that. They definitely would need more eggs than that to deal with the rest of the pastries he had planned for the day.

“No, there’s a few more out there but the milk order just got delivered too,” Obi-Wan said as he hefted the eggs.

“Need some help?” Cody asked, using his shoulder to try to rub away an itch on his nose.

Obi-Wan hummed a vague answer as he bypassed Cody to tuck the eggs safely into the walk-in. Only once he had returned did he reach up and scratch Cody’s nose for him. Cody closed his eyes in satisfaction as he leaned into Obi-Wan’s side.

“What kind of bread are you making?” Obi-Wan asked.

“Sourdough,” Cody said as he sighed and turned back to his task. He finished kneading the dough and gathered it into a neat ball to tuck into the bowl to proof. “I’ve already got a couple loaves in the oven already.”

Obi-Wan smiled. “That’s what I was smelling,” he said. He came in a little later than the others to handle the deliveries and open the front rather than handle the kitchen (he was strictly forbidden from handling any food). “And why we also have the beginnings of a line forming outside.”

“Already?!” Cody demanded as he cleaned the flour and bread goop off his hands and arms. “We’re not supposed to open for another hour!”

“The public loves your bread,” Obi-Wan said warmly. “It’s hard to blame them.”

“We’re not going to have enough,” Cody protested as he dried his hands. He looked over at the racks of different types of bread he’d been working on all morning. He had been slacking a little, maybe, enjoying the feel of the dough in his hands and the burn in his arms more than he had been focused on producing a product. And that was going to really hurt all those customers who were lined up to grab something that wasn’t going to be there.

“Hey, it’s okay,” Obi-Wan said, nudging Cody back against his worktable. “We have a limit on how many loaves people can buy. People know if they want a loaf they have to get here early because there’s only so many. They also know you’ll make more as the day goes on but it’s not a sure thing.”

Cody’s eyes narrowed. “Are you posting my baking schedule on social media?”

“Absolutely not,” Obi-Wan promised. Cody tried to check to see if his fingers were crossed but Obi-Wan kept turning at the last moment with a delighted little laugh.

Little shit absolutely was posting on social media.

Cody sighed and set his hands on Obi-Wan’s hips for lack of anything better to do with his hands. “I just don’t want anyone to be disappointed.”

“They won’t be,” Obi-Wan said with a small smile. “Trust me to handle the customers. You do what you do best and handle your bread.”

“Whose handling what?” Rex asked as he walked by with a large tray of muffins for the front case.

“Your mother,” Obi-Wan called after him.

“Don’t you talk about my mama like that!” Rex shouted over his shoulder.

Cody blinked. “I’m missing something.”

Obi-Wan laughed brightly and brushed a quick kiss against Cody’s cheek before he slipped away. “I gotta get the milk and the rest of the eggs,” he said apologetically as Cody smiled at him. “And you have more bread to make.”

“Only because you’re selling state secrets!” Cody said with a huff

Obi-Wan’s laughter followed him out of the kitchen as he went to fetch the rest of the milk. Cody turned back to the bread and started to whistle. It was going to be a good day.

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Happy Holidays from the Holiday Boar

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Everyone look at these Choppers I commissioned from @jejejijiju!

I love him so

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Second fic update of the day! Last chapter of this fic so enjoy!

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i am an advocate for Big Dumb Man rights and i will not take this blatant erasure by the anime twitter users

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For Christmas this year, I got a Jurassic Park Velociraptor toy, and even though it’s now a few days past Christmas, I decided to make this stopmotion video because I couldn’t stop laughing at the idea. Enjoy!

Animated with Stop Motion Studio Pro app on my iPad.